IGP, Mohammed Abubakar
Anger Sunday trailed the killing of 40 students of College of Agriculture, Gujba, Yobe State, by gunmen suspected to belong to the outlawed Boko Haram sect. Scores of others were also injured in the early morning raid on the college by the gunmen who attacked the institution while their victims were sleeping.
Another set of gunmen from the sect also killed seven others in Benisheikh, in Borno State, which was attacked two weeks ago during which 150 persons were killed in an ambush on the highway.
Although 65 persons were said to have been killed by sources, the Yobe State Government confirmed the death of 40 persons.
The attack, which came two months after a similar one on students of a boarding secondary school in Mamudo, near Potiskum, also Yobe State, that claimed the lives of no fewer than 29 schoolchildren, drew immediate condemnations from President Goodluck Jonathan, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor.
It was gathered that the gunmen crept into the college early yesterday morning when the students were still sleeping and headed straight to the dormitory. They were said to have shot sporadically at the students.
The gunmen were also said to have set some structures in the school on fire and watched while the students battled to escape from the inferno. Some of the students were also said to have been killed in the fire while others sustained varying degree of injuries.
Sources in the town told reporters that some of the students who sustained gunshot injuries and had fled into surrounding bushes died while they were fleeing and their bodies were found later in the day.
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